This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Sunday, May 18, 2014

World Cup '74 Portrait #57 (Piet Keizer: Holland)

graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
The subject of this latest addition to the portrait
collection is elaborately-coiffed Piet Keizer (a hairstyle that must surely
be filed under ‘sculptural’), who was selected to appear in both the FKS &
Panini ‘World Cup ‘74’ collectors’ albums, & also the official Dutch squad
for the Finals, where he made but one appearance – the goalless first round
draw with Sweden, the match featuring a performance of the iconic ‘Cruyff turn’
-of Holland’s seven in the tournament
during their progress to the final itself.

One of the charming features of the source images from which
the drawings are processed is, of course, the period hairstyles they represent,
with sideburns a plentiful accessory to, as is clearly observable from the
progress of proceedings so far, with the promise/guarantee of much more to come,
footballers serving as but a microcosm of the wider society & its fashions
of the time.